Betsy Content-Härtz

Betsy Härtz was a daughter of Izak Härtz and Zientje Magnus. She married in Amsterdam on 26 October 1938 to the widower of Gertrude Hanreck, Hijman Content, a son of Abraham Content and Naatje Gompers.
Her sister Martha has been killed during the Holocaust too.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Hijman Content, Betsy Härtz and website www.wiewaswie.nl.

Hijman Content was a son of the diamond broker Abraham Content and Naatje Gompers en was born 4 March 1892. His father passed away in 1906 and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery at Muiderberg. He had one brother, Louis, who after his marriage to Rebecca Schuitevoerder in 1918, left Amsterdam for Deurne (Antwerp) in 1925 with his wife and two children.

Hijman travelled regularly to London on behal…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 53951) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.The Jokos file reveals that a claim was lodged for compensation for looted jewellery (S-claim, number 5/638).